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doesn't work well in urban environments. not a fire escape methodology. if you have a yard and some level ground, you've got good shoes, you're not a heavy drinker. >> disqualifies. >> you get a great bird. >> i think everyone is here is thankful for what looks to be the ri vival of the twinkie. can you incorporate it into a turkey dinner? >> you probably could but why would you? >> if you're not allowed to eat a block of pimento cheese beforehand the twinkie is off limits. we have to leave it there. i am starving. thank you to bill, r nora, sam, sam and joy. i wish you all a very happy thanks gill -- thanksgiving, filled with tryptophan and good cheer and remember to grab a copy of sam sifton's book "thanksgiving: how to cook it well." that is all for "now." ari will be in for me tomorrow while i start my thanksgiving celebration on the moon. ari will have a special show from plymouth rock, joined by p.j. crowley, richard wolfe, heather mcghee, jonathan capehart and ben smith. follow us on twitter at "now" with alex. "andrea mitchell reports" is next. in
doesn't work well in urban environments. not a fire escape methodology. if you have a yard and some level ground, you've got good shoes, you're not a heavy drinker. >> disqualifies. >> you get a great bird. >> i think everyone is here is thankful for what looks to be the ri vival of the twinkie. can you incorporate it into a turkey dinner? >> you probably could but why would you? >> if you're not allowed to eat a block of pimento cheese beforehand the twinkie is...
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so we brought other issues into the election like how we treat the poor, how we treat the environment, how we welcome strangers. you in evangelicals last week writing the president last week saying how we treat the immigrant undocumented people is for us a biblical issue. we're going to write them again this week, the president and say who are serving the poor at christmastime and thanksgiving we're involved in that. those of us who are doing that are going to say to our members of congress don't make decisions that make the poor poorer and make our work harder. so you might say we're doing turkey baskets for the poor than baskets of letters to our some of our turkeys who represent us in congress. >> the moral majority for so longing had sway with partisan sway. do you think that their influence has waned? is that over now. >> here's the big change. the religious right for a long time tried to control the meaning of the word evangelical and make it a partisan political word. it's not. it's a theological term. it's about following jesus christ. it's about taking the bible seriously. an
so we brought other issues into the election like how we treat the poor, how we treat the environment, how we welcome strangers. you in evangelicals last week writing the president last week saying how we treat the immigrant undocumented people is for us a biblical issue. we're going to write them again this week, the president and say who are serving the poor at christmastime and thanksgiving we're involved in that. those of us who are doing that are going to say to our members of congress...
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you never can feel safe in a prison environment. i don't depend on prison administration to protect me. yeah, they're going to take steps to sure we're secure. but at the same time i'm going to fall back on the things i learned while in prison to help me survive out here. >> in some ways you feel like you hung up your balls. now you have to rely on the administration to handle your issues as opposed to you handling them in a way you were taught to handle issues. now i play sports with people i was once enemies with. you know? and it's a big step.
you never can feel safe in a prison environment. i don't depend on prison administration to protect me. yeah, they're going to take steps to sure we're secure. but at the same time i'm going to fall back on the things i learned while in prison to help me survive out here. >> in some ways you feel like you hung up your balls. now you have to rely on the administration to handle your issues as opposed to you handling them in a way you were taught to handle issues. now i play sports with...
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i need a different environment. that's why i'm always fighting and stuff like that. because people always want that drama with me. >> it's the kind of drama the jail doesn't want. staff has compiled a list of keep-froms, or inmates that must be kept away from edmonds jr. this list of his potential enemies makes it hard for the jail to house him. >> all right. continue? >> brian edmonds, he was recently put on admin seg. >> is this junior or senior? >> junior. >> once a month, they conduct a meeting to review the inmates housed in single-person segregation cells throughout the jail. >> the purpose of this meeting is to make sure that we have the right people in those cells, those single cells. single cells are a premium item in the department here. >> edmonds has an excessive keep-from list now and continued behavioral issues. >> do we need to follow up with him and get an evaluation done from a mental health standpoint? >> you can, but he's more behavioral. >> do one on him anyway, and see what you come up with, lee. >> while staff members focus on their behavior in
i need a different environment. that's why i'm always fighting and stuff like that. because people always want that drama with me. >> it's the kind of drama the jail doesn't want. staff has compiled a list of keep-froms, or inmates that must be kept away from edmonds jr. this list of his potential enemies makes it hard for the jail to house him. >> all right. continue? >> brian edmonds, he was recently put on admin seg. >> is this junior or senior? >> junior....
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how does israel justify force in such a crowded environment? >> actually, it's not the most crowded place in the world. tel-aviv is more densely populated than gaza is. having said that we are dealing with a densely populated area, that is true. we have conducted more than 1,000 air strikes against rocket base, rocket launching pits, arsenals, command headquarters and we have taken extraordinary, i would even say super human measures to avoid inflicting civilian casualties there. we made tens of thousands of phone calls, dropped leaflets, sent text messages to people, civilians in these areas, warning them to clear out. as a result, we've been able to reducing civilian casualties to a minimum. it's always difficult between civilians are hurt. three-quarters of people hurt in gaza have been armed terrorists. >> thank you for your time this afternoon. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> a programming note, we will be talking to former plo spokeswoman diana buttu tomorrow. >>> coming up, nfl legend mike ditka survives a major health scare and live
how does israel justify force in such a crowded environment? >> actually, it's not the most crowded place in the world. tel-aviv is more densely populated than gaza is. having said that we are dealing with a densely populated area, that is true. we have conducted more than 1,000 air strikes against rocket base, rocket launching pits, arsenals, command headquarters and we have taken extraordinary, i would even say super human measures to avoid inflicting civilian casualties there. we made...
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being in this environment, i've had to become and to be a predator in order to avoid being prey. >> finding appropriate housing for convicted killers who have continued their violent ways behind bars is always a challenge. a fact dramatically illustrated during our visit to kern valley state prison in california. >> it's all we got, work, work, work, you know. >> when we met james randall, he was working his prison job helping officers serve food to his fellow inmates. when we sat down to talk in his cell, randall seemed to only have one concern. how his shaved head looked on camera. >> there's no lint on my head or nothing? >> no, you're fine. >> i'm cool. i got a gang out of it. shining like new money. >> when you interview people in prison, you know they are in there for a good reason. and when you meet them, sometimes they're very likable. they might even be somebody you think you could be friends with. but sometimes you end up hearing a jaw-dropping story. the day we met james randall, we heard a jaw-dropping story. >> originally i came to jail february 21st, 1981, convicted in san ber
being in this environment, i've had to become and to be a predator in order to avoid being prey. >> finding appropriate housing for convicted killers who have continued their violent ways behind bars is always a challenge. a fact dramatically illustrated during our visit to kern valley state prison in california. >> it's all we got, work, work, work, you know. >> when we met james randall, he was working his prison job helping officers serve food to his fellow inmates. when we...
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you know, they try to make it as safe an environment as possible, but you never know what's going to happen. >> we've accompanied these inmates and many others through one of the more discomforting aspects of intake -- the strip search. >> our intake officer will take them one at a time back into a strip room, do a visual cavity search. >> searching all that too? >> yep. >> they try to do it with a level of dignity and respect so as to not make the person uncomfortable. >> bend over and spread your butt cheeks. thank you. what size of underwear? >> because utah receives a relatively small number of new arrivals on intake days, officers can make the process more comfortable for the inmates. we found a very different atmosphere at the sprawling and constantly bustling los angeles county jail. >> stand up, spread your feet. shoulder width apart. lift up your left foot, wiggle your toes. >> l.a. county, which is probably one of the largest jail systems in the world, was a completely different experience. >> drop them, turn around. >> and the inmate reception center is gigantic. you know,
you know, they try to make it as safe an environment as possible, but you never know what's going to happen. >> we've accompanied these inmates and many others through one of the more discomforting aspects of intake -- the strip search. >> our intake officer will take them one at a time back into a strip room, do a visual cavity search. >> searching all that too? >> yep. >> they try to do it with a level of dignity and respect so as to not make the person...
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it's a very bad food environment that we live in. thank you for bringing this to the table. >> you just marginalized yourself in a way that your two mean brothers never could. >> p we all lived under the sea. >> intellectually limited. >>> "new york times," the liberal gloat. he makes a lot of points in this piece. i'm going to read one off the computer. let's zoom in on what he says about, for example, what happened with the hispanic vote. are democrats winning hispanics because they put forward a more welcoming face than republican s do? one more in keeping with american's tradition with migrants yearning to breathe free? yes, up to a point. but they're also winning recent immigrants because those immigrants offense wrnts a simulating successfully or, worse, ares a simulating downward, thanks to rising out of wedlock birth rates and drop out rates. it depends heavily on the darker trends, the weaker that families and communities are, the more necessary government support inevitably seems, which is an interesting point. he goes on t
it's a very bad food environment that we live in. thank you for bringing this to the table. >> you just marginalized yourself in a way that your two mean brothers never could. >> p we all lived under the sea. >> intellectually limited. >>> "new york times," the liberal gloat. he makes a lot of points in this piece. i'm going to read one off the computer. let's zoom in on what he says about, for example, what happened with the hispanic vote. are democrats...
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we are living in a post-war environment. as to your dislike of violence, what is happening is the conflicts are becoming less violent and more symbolic. it is very true of this conflict. it is the internet that is becoming the battlefield, the tv camera. twitter is the battlefield. >> gaza -- >> these are real life. >> it's a real battlefield. i have spoken to my family. there was a siren in tel aviv over gaza. what i would like to see is an international involvement after the cease-fire is reached. i think we send the palestinians the opposite message of what you are saying because what happened. looking at wholistic approach, after the first, we were willing to go. after the second we give the disengagement. we pulled out. basically, the palestinians have only gotten something through violence. the only thing is that it had to be a greater violence than you can imagine to achieve something like that. the long term concept is in palestinian. i agree there is an international indifference to the conflict when it's not contai
we are living in a post-war environment. as to your dislike of violence, what is happening is the conflicts are becoming less violent and more symbolic. it is very true of this conflict. it is the internet that is becoming the battlefield, the tv camera. twitter is the battlefield. >> gaza -- >> these are real life. >> it's a real battlefield. i have spoken to my family. there was a siren in tel aviv over gaza. what i would like to see is an international involvement after the...
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people but i guess in terms of moving the ball forward on all things green, all things relating to the environment and our energy policy how optimistic are you that we're going to find a solution to this in the coming years, which is to say the next four? >> you know, in hearing the president speak and reading -- it's i guess confused as an observer and i love listening to you but trying to parse out what it means because what it goes back to for me, in the election, when politicians were separating ow the economy from birth control i was like, no, it's the same. when we hear, we have to see what's economically sound, and when we talk about climate change and energy, didn't i just hear, and don't we think the future is green jobs and what that means? so kind of stepping back, makes me feel frustrated because i feel like isn't that the direction we need to be going in and how do we convince americans that, yeah, you know what, prices at pump have to go up if we want to have them not? >> you can ask somebody who has lost a business in coney island or in the rockaways if this is about jobs and growth
people but i guess in terms of moving the ball forward on all things green, all things relating to the environment and our energy policy how optimistic are you that we're going to find a solution to this in the coming years, which is to say the next four? >> you know, in hearing the president speak and reading -- it's i guess confused as an observer and i love listening to you but trying to parse out what it means because what it goes back to for me, in the election, when politicians were...
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while their environment is being destroyed, if you think about louisiana as a state that is being literally destroyed by the industry that employs a good number of the people there. so every mechanism in that state is designed to protect an industry that's destroying the state. but people as real lives are tied to it. even democrats, someone like jay rockefeller who is considered a great prerogative when it comes to coal, he's are with the republicans. >> anyone who is going to be elected -- there are certain places where it's the geographic interests override the ideological ones. >> that's why is we need some actually leadership from the president, and others on the really central issues. i mean, look, climate change is the legacy issue of all legacy issues. you know, 100 years from now, the only thing that people are going to look back on 2012 and care about. the fiscal cliff or the -- it's like, you guys the arctic melts and you didn't do anything about it? why is that? >> keystone is one pipeline. the canadian company is planning to double the same pipeline that leaked. say obama rejec
while their environment is being destroyed, if you think about louisiana as a state that is being literally destroyed by the industry that employs a good number of the people there. so every mechanism in that state is designed to protect an industry that's destroying the state. but people as real lives are tied to it. even democrats, someone like jay rockefeller who is considered a great prerogative when it comes to coal, he's are with the republicans. >> anyone who is going to be elected...
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we all know it was such a politically charged environment dealing with benghazi and the cia, we didn't -- they didn't want to bring something to the president that was half-baked. i think they showed great restraint in really not getting caught up in the politico hoopla that was months ago. they did it the right way by not politicizing this thing. >> petraeus was scheduled to testify this thursday in these congressional senate hearings that have been established to find out more information about benghazi. a lot of which he has been front and center of trying to pull together information on on the point person on this. senator lindsey graham made an important statement -- >> we have four dead americans in benghazi. we have a national secure failure along in the making. i don't see how in the world you can find out what happened in benghazi before, during and after the attack if general petraeus doesn't testify. so from my point of view, it's absolutely essential that he give testimony before the congress so we can figure out benghazi. >> his second is going to step in to give that test
we all know it was such a politically charged environment dealing with benghazi and the cia, we didn't -- they didn't want to bring something to the president that was half-baked. i think they showed great restraint in really not getting caught up in the politico hoopla that was months ago. they did it the right way by not politicizing this thing. >> petraeus was scheduled to testify this thursday in these congressional senate hearings that have been established to find out more...
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and if you don't think we're in a changing environment, as you just noeted, when you're losing the cuban vote in florida, that's a brand-new day in american politics for the gop. >> they should have been listening to you. michael steele and steve elmendorf, thank you very much. >>> and this veterans day marnt the fuirst time in a decade in which there are no soldiers fighting in iraq. >> this 9/11 generation that stepped forward after the towers fell and in the years sense have stepped into history. running one of the greatest chapters of military service our country has ever known. tour after tour, year after year, you and your families have done all that this country has asked. you've done that and more. >> joseph carnes goodwin is a member of that post-9/11 generation that served in iraq and afghanistan and joins me now from boston. joe, great to see you. tell me about what made you want to serve and you did two tours, i think? >> that's right. one in iraq and one in afghanistan. >> and one in afghanistan. you, obviously, we've known for you for a long time. your parents, doris kearns
and if you don't think we're in a changing environment, as you just noeted, when you're losing the cuban vote in florida, that's a brand-new day in american politics for the gop. >> they should have been listening to you. michael steele and steve elmendorf, thank you very much. >>> and this veterans day marnt the fuirst time in a decade in which there are no soldiers fighting in iraq. >> this 9/11 generation that stepped forward after the towers fell and in the years sense...
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in our environment, in our hyperpartisan environment, most people in a situation like this seeing any possibility for political advantage would have raced to expose something like this, right? general petraeus was confronted about this two weeks ago, right? two weeks before the election. chose -- ultimately decided to resign but didn't decide to resign at that moment. was there part of the reason he did not decide to resign immediately upon being confronted on this, he knew it would be embarrassing for the administration on the eve of an election? that's a reasonable inference. there's so much we don't know because so many people individually have not spoken publicly about the chain of events and their motivations in terms of keeping quiet at a moment of maximum political volatility. >> just to clarify because i've raised a lot of questions here, my biggest concern isn't what happened at the end. i understand there are a lot of conservatives that are going to be thinking that this was -- >> cover-up. >> benghazi, cover-up, that's not my concern. my concern is the beginning of this. if
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but i think also, though, he didn't -- he was not sufficiently angry enough in this environment that the primary process was fought in. he wasn't anti-intellectual enough. >> and downplayed his conservatism. >> that was the biggest mistake. he downplayed his conservatism from the very beginning. and i want to say again, mark halperin, the anti-intellectualism in the republican party over the past decade has been growing. that's another thing bobby jindal has been talking about. that's got to change. that's got to change. we not only have to win over hispanics, we've got to win over educated hispanics. educated african-americans. educated white people. educated people of all races with ph.d.s, an area we've been losing for decades. >> and joe, there's another issue that i know you think a lot about and thought a lot about that huntsman also talked about which is afghanistan and ending the war. that's another populist issue that i think republicans missed in 2012. the president was for winding down the war. you had others who didn't run that thought that that was an issue to tap into a
but i think also, though, he didn't -- he was not sufficiently angry enough in this environment that the primary process was fought in. he wasn't anti-intellectual enough. >> and downplayed his conservatism. >> that was the biggest mistake. he downplayed his conservatism from the very beginning. and i want to say again, mark halperin, the anti-intellectualism in the republican party over the past decade has been growing. that's another thing bobby jindal has been talking about....
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he had a grew up with a single mom and even in his environment being that he grew up a lot with white people and things that have nature. >> lincoln lost his mother at a young age. very close to his stepmother who in certain ways had similarities. >> losing rays. lincoln ran for congress and lost. same as barack obama. but yet, persevered and continued with the focus, to move on forward and understanding still peoplecrit stizing you but you're ready to take that criticism because you want to take the next step. sometimes if you're sincere, you don't know right away what the right thing is to do. you've got to think about it and ponder and walk around. as president obama did surely even when he went after osama bin laden. he didn't know. he said i've got to sleep on it. what's the right thing to do here. sometimes you've got to make the right decision and sometimes you may make the wrong decision. >> there's a preference for come tem plative president. sort of weigh in on this for me. >> i think that certainly the falling to your knees at a time of conflict that commonality that both o
he had a grew up with a single mom and even in his environment being that he grew up a lot with white people and things that have nature. >> lincoln lost his mother at a young age. very close to his stepmother who in certain ways had similarities. >> losing rays. lincoln ran for congress and lost. same as barack obama. but yet, persevered and continued with the focus, to move on forward and understanding still peoplecrit stizing you but you're ready to take that criticism because...
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much more unpredictable environment with the event occurring here as we saw it in 2008. >> okay. p.j., tell me about this iron dome defense system. what that is about and the upgraded hamas weaponry. where does this weaponry come from? mouth how does all of the technology change the equip there? >> hamas upgraded missile systems, undoubtedly support for a variety of countries. particularly iran. because of the political changes here, egypt has relaxed its enforcement of the border between gaza and egypt making smuggling of these systems in to gaza more easy. then of course i will you have a little bit of the -- the building of an ingij nous missile capability in gaza since sit israel retreated in 2007. the iron dome is a major project of cooperation between israel and the united states. it undercuts one of the major arguments in the campaign that there was a lack of attention to israel's defense needs when in fact there is a great manifestation of significant security cooperation and obviously what we are seeing is it with was not a perfect system. but it has been an effective sy
much more unpredictable environment with the event occurring here as we saw it in 2008. >> okay. p.j., tell me about this iron dome defense system. what that is about and the upgraded hamas weaponry. where does this weaponry come from? mouth how does all of the technology change the equip there? >> hamas upgraded missile systems, undoubtedly support for a variety of countries. particularly iran. because of the political changes here, egypt has relaxed its enforcement of the border...
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they will adopt whatever policies -- and they'll adapt to that environment. and also, keep in mind, 80% of most major corporations, their business is outside of north america. i'm worried about small business. i'm worried about mid-size businesses. i'm worried about the start-up businesses that say we are the engine of america. >> mm-hmm. >> you're putting this burden on us at a time where it's very difficult for us to compete in the marketplace let alone with incremental costs or uncertainty. >> so the president, congress faces a real challenge here and it's almost like you've got to thread the needle between -- >> yeah. >> ignoring the debt, which would cause the markets to rebel and moving too aggressively toward higher taxes and big spending cuts that will, again, dampen -- dampen the economy for the next year or two. we've got a difficult road ahead. >> it is a difficult road ahead. i guess my view is it's going to be difficult for them to come to a sort of grand bargain of the kind that we almost got year and a half ago. a deal that really looks ahead 1
they will adopt whatever policies -- and they'll adapt to that environment. and also, keep in mind, 80% of most major corporations, their business is outside of north america. i'm worried about small business. i'm worried about mid-size businesses. i'm worried about the start-up businesses that say we are the engine of america. >> mm-hmm. >> you're putting this burden on us at a time where it's very difficult for us to compete in the marketplace let alone with incremental costs or...